The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Jefferson Parish, the Friends of Jefferson Public Library are selling resin busts ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ... whose Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the Hemings family changed Jefferson scholarship forever. Ms. Gordon-Reed is actually the most dispassionate of ...